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Cairo - Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for what was billed as a “second revolution,” chanting their demands: try former President Hosni Mubarak and his …

As we and many others have noted, no top banking executives have been successfully prosecuted in connection with the financial crisis: not for making the bad loans that fed the mortgage machine, not for lying …

Last Friday afternoon, I watched an episode of Private Practice that had aired the week before and was not all that surprised when one of the story lines focused on abortion. …

On May 23 and 25, police in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince destroyed camps which sheltered people who were otherwise homeless since the earthquake. Police and other municipal workers …

A watch tower at the Gaza/Egypt border crossing. (Photo: Marius Arnesen / Flickr) Rafah Border Crossing, between Egypt and Gaza — Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the …

Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: Waqas Ahmed / Flickr) Islamabad, Pakistan - At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber ripped through a restaurant in …

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. (Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr) Washington - Congress is playing a game of “chicken” with the nation's finances, and the U.S. economy …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with President Barack Obama during Middle East peace talks in Washington, on September 1, 2010. (Photo: Drew Angerer / The New York Times) …

(Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) There are folks who seem to keep hoping that Obama has a “progressive” side which we will all …

Indignation is the catch phrase in Spain these days, most feel it and most express it, but the collective shouting seems to fall into a vacuum that can soon …